Sunday morning toons: How can there be popular uprisings? We haven't bombed them yet!

What government leader is currently contending with popular demonstrations in the capitol plus police who are evidently sympathizing with the demonstrators, topped off by a completely embarrassing media appearance?

(If you didn't know that's a trick question, you got here just in time, Dear Reader! See below.)

Today's selections were carefully hand-prepared by Egyptian pizza makers from the week's political cartoon pages at Slate, Time, Mario Piperni, About.com, and Daryl Cagle, and then shipped to us inside the cartons for 6 large pizzas (three vegetarian; two pepperoni/sausage/mushroom; and one jalapeño and sardine).

Do badgers eat pancakes? and other pressing questions raised by the three finalists for the 2011 Cartoonist of the Year Reuben award from the National Cartoonist Society, viaComic Riffs. Fans of "Pearls Before Swine," "Cul de Sac," and Disney's "Aladdin" and "Tangled" should take note!

Portland homeboy Jack Ohman offers a quick tutorial on the intersection of the federal government and job openings.

Follow along in your phrasebooks: "Bon jour, Monsieur Pussy-Cat!" . . . "Pauvre, pauvre, pussy-cat!" "The Two Mouseketeers" is the Academy Award-winning 1952 Tom and Jerry short directed by Hanna and Barbera. You either like the little Nibbles character (voiced here by six-year-old Francoise Brun-Cottan) or you find him incredibly annoying. But enough T&J fans liked him that he stayed around for three more adventures in the "Mouseketeers" series. Musical director Scott Bradley's adaptation of the traditional "Alouette" into the theme for the sword-fight scene is great. (Note the tasteful handling of Tom's violent death in the final moments.)

(Note to Facebook friends: If you're reading this in FB Notes, you'll need to click View Original Post, below, to see the video.)

p3 Bonus Toon: At this point, it's simply too much for David Wu's supporters to hope people won't pile on; the only question is which direction(s) they'll come from. Jesse Springer opts for the children's character who makes you afraid.

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"A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance, and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others." -Thomas Jefferson (1826)